ELUARD (Paul). Dream of September 21, 1943. "I dreamed that I was walking fast / On the roads of Tyrol / Sometimes to go faster / I walked on all fours [...]" AUTOGRAPHIC POEM, in draft and final version, 2 ff. in-folio. With photocopies of each sheet each certified by Cécile Eluard (2/7/83) and an autograph card signed by Cécile Eluard accompanying the certificates (and a woodcut on China by Santenac). This poem written during a stay in Tyrol with a Dada group during the summers of 1921 and 1922 appeared in the collection "Le lit la table" in 1944 (Éditions des Trois collines, Geneva).

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